Dr. Max Solbrekken and Dr. Boutros Boktor in 2007
at Assemblies of God Church in Cairo, Egypt
JESUS CHRIST IS
NOT NEGOTIABLE
By Pastor Max Solbrekken D.D.
The Gospel is Good News for Fallen Man! It is the
Glad Tidings of the great love, mercy and grace of God projected toward a
sinful and rebellious race! The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology states: "The
Gospel is the joyous proclamation of God's activity in Christ on behalf of
man."
Every year as we near the Easter season, true
believers in Jesus Christ and His glorious Gospel will be heralding the amazing
Bible account of the God's great mercy and grace toward sinful man. The word
Gospel means Good News!
The Gospel is the good news and glad
tidings that Light has come into a world
of Darkness; that Peace has come into a world
of Turmoil; that Healing has come into a world of Sickness; that
that Love has come into a world of Hate;
that Forgiveness has come into a world of Sin;
that Life has come into a world of Death; that Freedom has
come into a world of Bondage; that Slaves are made free by
the Liberator of the Human Race!
And that Light, Peace, Healing, Love, Forgiveness, Life,
Liberty, Freedom and Eternal Life is none other than Jesus Christ the Son of
God. That He was crucified for us, arose from the dead and sitting on the Right
hand of God as Saviour, Redeemer, Advocate, High Priest and Intercessor!
Soon the usual liberal "enemies of the
cross" theologians and their lap-dogs, the money hungry Hollywood
Producers and actors, will be spreading lies and falsehoods about Jesus Christ
and His Gospel. I found this powerful statement on Google recently: It
was my position in 1993 and it is my position today, in 2020. The Western Report Feb. 8,
1993 story of Christian Unity in Alberta carried this excerpt:
“Edmonton’s
Dr. Max Solbrekken is more blunt, ‘We can’t sit at the same table with people
who presume to change the word of God - call God the Father ‘she,’ license
homosexual acts, change Christ’s own words on marriage, or deny that He
rose from the dead. That’s blasphemy. The only truth that unites Christians is
the person of Jesus, and he is not negotiable. I’m all for Christians joining
together, but Christ is the living Word, not an ‘evolving idea,’ and He doesn’t
change with the times.”
FROM THE MANGER TO THE CROSS!
What a journey Jesus Christ had: From the
Manger to the Cross - the Cross of Calvary - the place of pain, shame and
agony, where our Saviour shed His precious blood to set the captives free!
Christ's vicarious (substitutionary) death and
glorious resurrection from the dead drives us to Repentance and Faith,
as we see His hand of mercy extended to a lost, fearful and sick world.
The Cross is the expression of God's
love for us. It is the very pinnacle of His mercy and grace to an
enslaved people, bound by lust, greed, pride and hate. The Cross of Christ has
been referred to as the axis of salvation, the climax of the cosmic battle
between God and Satan, between good and evil!
JESUS said: "As the Father knoweth
Me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down My life for the sheep. Therefore,
doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again.
"No man taketh it from Me, but I lay
it of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it
again. This command have I received of My Father," (John 10: 15-18); "Greater
love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
(John 15: 13)
"For when we were yet without
strength (hopeless) in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For
scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet peradventure for a good man some
would even dare to die.
"But God commendeth His love toward
us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then,
being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
"For if, when
we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more,
being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." (Rom.5: 8-10)
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD!
The Sovereignty of God demanded punishment
for sin and the Cross provided the Final Solution! From the
Gates of Eden - after the Fall - until the death of Jesus of Nazareth
on Golgotha, God used the sacrificial system to forgive the sins of His people.
Innocent lambs, goats and bulls were sacrificed as substitutes for sinning man!
When Jesus cried, "It is
Finished", Almighty God rent the vail in the Temple and left the
Holy of Holies. Standing on Golgotha's Hill, He laid His hands on the head of
His Son, transferring the sins of the entire world (past, present and
future) to His Paschal Lamb.
The Lamb of God had been sacrificed. He
had propitiated for our sins. The Father was satisfied. The account was settled
for time and eternity! The fountain of blood was opened for sin and
uncleanness. His blood was flowing. JESUS had met the Demands of Divine Justice
in the courts of Heaven, in payment for all our sins!
"And he (thief) said unto Jesus, Lord,
remember me when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom. And Jesus said unto him,
Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.
"And the sun was darkened and the vail
in the temple was rent in the midst. And when Jesus had cried
with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit: and
having thus said, He gave up the ghost." (Luke 23: 42-46)
THE GREAT EXCHANGE WAS DONE!
The sins of Adam that
was imputed to the entire human race had now been transferred to God's
incarnated Son. Our sins were imputed to Christ and in exchange, His
righteousness was imputed to us!
(Rom.3:21-26; 4:6-8; 5:11-21)
The BIBLE states: "But Christ
being come an High Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither
by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own Blood He entered in
once into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
"For if the blood of bulls and
goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the
purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ Who through the
Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience
from dead works to serve the Living God?" (Heb. 9: 11-14)
Speaking to the pagan philosophers of
Greece about Jesus Christ, St. Paul stated: "Forasmuch then that we
are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto
gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of
this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to Repent.
"Because He hath appointed a day, in the
which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man, Whom
He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath
raised Him from the dead." (Acts 17: 30, 31)
LIFE THROUGH THE BLOOD!
DR. DEHANN wrote: “The blood of Jesus is sinless blood, and
since it is incorruptible, for sin brings corruption
and where no sin is, there is no corruption. Every drop of blood which flowed
in Jesus’ body is still in existence, and is just as fresh as it was when it
flowed from His broken skin in Gethsemane, the blood that was smeared about His
back when the cruel weighted tongs cut through His flesh as the flagellator
scourged Him, the blood that oozed out under the thorny crown and flowed from
His hands, His head, His feet was never destroyed for it was incorruptible blood.
“David, in speaking of Him in the 16th Psalm,
while Peter quotes in Acts 2, says, “Thou wilt not leave His soul in Hell,
nether wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption.
Although the body of the Lord Jesus lay in the tomb in death for three days
and nights with no corruption in it for that body contained incorruptible
blood.”
DR. ANDREW
MURRAY wrote: "Reconciliation and
deliverance from guilt become the blessed entrance for us into a life in which
the Blood, as it was transported into Heaven and abides there will be truly the
power of divine abiding life in us." - The Blood of the Cross
MARTIN
LUTHER stated: "First, the blood of Christ remains
the same blood of Christ. For we believe and hold that the blood of Christ that
is now at the Right Hand of God, was shed for us only ONCE." - Church &
Ministry, Luther's Works, vol. 40, p. 215
ST.
PAUL states: "But this Man, because He
continueth ever, hath an unchanging priesthood. Wherefore He is able to save
them to the uttermost that come unto God through Him, seeing He ever liveth to
make intercession for them.
"For such an High Priest became us,
Who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than
the heavens: Who needeth not daily, as those high priests to offer up
sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's; for this He
did ONCE, when He offered up Himself.
"For the law maketh men high
priests which have infirmity, but the word of the OATH, which was since the
law, maketh the SON, who is consecrated forevermore." (Heb.7:24-28)
MY CONFESSION OF FAITH!
Clearly stated, there is but ONE God and Father
and ONE Lord Jesus Christ Who is both Creator and Sustainer of the world and
Sole Saviour and Redeemer of the entire Human Race, and ONE Blessed Holy Spirit
of God, who draws all men to Christ!
All other so-called gods and goddesses and
deities are mere Counterfeits, Imitators and Pretenders. It is Christ and
Christ Alone who saves, heals, delivers and liberates from sin, fear, sickness,
disease and all the powers of Darkness and Satan!
"But to us (Christians) there
is but ONE God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we in Him, and ONE Lord
Jesus Christ by Whom are all things, and we by Him." (1 Cor.8: 6). Amen
After discussing the
outstanding miracle healings that had occurred under my ministry in Norway, the editor
of a major Norwegian newspaper asked, “Who
is Max Solbrekken?” I replied, “The boy delivering telegrams does his job
and gets back on his bicycle, often without being thanked. The boy is not important,
but the telegram is. Max Solbrekken isn't important, but the message is
very important. I am just a messenger boy for Jesus!”
Next day's Newspaper had a large picture of
this preacher, and the article covered a full page. The headline screamed,
“Max
Solbrekken: A Messenger Boy for Jesus!” That was the most beautiful
thing I could ever have written about me. I was so excited and thrilled to be publicly
linked to Jesus in that manner. What a privilege!
For
more than 60 years, I have carried the Gospel of Jesus Christ to multitudes
across the world, the Lord working with us and confirming the Word with miracles,
sign and wonders! From 1989 to 1995,
God gave us many open doors across the former Soviet Union with great success.
I will never forget touring Chernobyl
not long after the catastrophic nuclear explosion there. We preached in the new
town of Slavutich, forty miles away.
In 2004 and 2005, together with Dr. Manoel
Ferreira of the Assemblies of God in Brazil, Donna and I preached in four
Ministers Conventions with a total of 10,000 preachers.
PREACHING TO MUSLIMS IN DARFUR!
And
in Parque Brasil in Paulinia, S.P. Brazil I was invited to preach to more than
300,000 people on April 13, 2005. Our latest Gospel Unity Crusade was in
Kampala, Uganda in 2011.
One of my greatest joys was preaching to Muslims in Sudan including Darfur in 2006 and 2007. Norwegian Missionary
Jan Ernst Gabrielsen and I had some glorious revivals there. Our time together
with Dr. Boutros Boktor at the Assembly of God in Cairo Egypt in 2007 was
special.
He said: “Dr. Max, there is a saying
that once you drink of the waters of the Nile, you will come back again and
again. We want you to come back again and again.” Sadly,
before I could make it back to Cairo, the Lord called him Home.
Fortunately, I produced a video with Dr.
Boktor of his experience as an Egyptian soldier on the desert during the Six
Day War (1967) with Israel. In great detail, he related his one-on-one meeting with
JESUS and his miraculous escape from the bombardment by Israeli jets that
killed hundreds and captured of several thousand of his fellow soldiers.
To God be all the honour, praise and
glory, through Jesus Christ the Lord! I praise Him for His grace and pure love with
which He has showered Donna and me and our beautiful family throughout all these
years. Amen.
